By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 27, 2014 (Previous installment) Mon. Dec. 16, 1918 Sighted Tahiti about 9: am. About 7: pm we came sailing into the pass at Papeete and happily anticipating a good bath, supper & the priviledge to lying out straight in a nice clean dry bed (the first time in 4 1/2 months) when the pilot boat came out & put us under quarantine, informing us that the Spanish influenza was raging in Papeete, about 3000 ...
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